Performance as a representation of Science, Technology and the Universe
Here we refer to performance in its wider definition in order to include theatre, film, performance art, political speeches, extreme sports, etc. Historically, human societies have enacted their relation to the universe in a myriad of ways, and this speaks of the necessity to account for extraterrestrial space in performance as a way to understand
Performance as a method of interdisciplinary research
Here, we can think of cases where knowledge about outer space is reached at through performance. There is an increasing number of artists worldwide that since the Cold War have been dialoguing with science and technology in order to explore this possibility. For example, the well-known biosphere experiments in which groups of people are isolated
“What to do with the ‘doing undergoing’?” – Gido Broers
Let me start by saying that Tim Ingold gave an interesting talk – “On doing undergoing: Experience, Imagination and the Principle of Habit” – about what it means to do something habitually and to master a certain skill, which also raises more general questions about attention & intention, embodiment and cognitive systems. For Ingold, doing
“Embodied Literacy, Skill, and Habit” – Dennis Jansen
Lately, I am becoming increasingly fascinated by the embodied aspects of digital games and digital gameplay. If Brendan Keogh (2018) is to be believed, we cannot truly understand how we perceive and make sense of games without taking into account the fact that we are directing our eyes at the screen, aiming our ears at
“From Linelanders to Geographers of Thought” – Laura Jimenez Rojas
The first TiM session of 2019 had a great beginning. The guest was the anthropologist Tim Ingold. The talk was about “On Doing Undergoing: experience, imagination and the principle of habit”. We had the opportunity to have a glimpse of Ingold’s phenomenological approach in the context of his “dwelling perspective”. The guiding question for this session was:
Transmission in Motion Seminar: “Experiment/Experience” ( 2018- 2019 )
Experiment/Experience “Have we forgotten experience?” wonders Scott Lash (Experience, 2018). If this is so, we are currently witnessing a comeback with a vengeance. New forms of research and communication explore and experiment with various dimensions of experience. Art and science meet in experimental approaches that foreground sensation, substance and practice. Technological developments “expand the sensible”
“Datafying Sweet Secrets” (TiM Public Launch) – Tamalone van den Eijnden
In her talk on the occasion of the celebration of the launch of Transmission in Motion, Norah Zuniga Shaw advocated for an “ethics of care,” not only in the face of the ubiquity of technology but also in view of the intimacy with it. Until now, when I was thinking about intimate and affective relationships with
“Concepts in the Making” – Elissavet Kardami
Maaike Bleeker’s lecture offered an expanded understanding of the notion of literacy which approaches corporeality as a source of knowledge. What I particularly enjoyed from the lecture was that, instead of presenting the results of her research, she guided us through the process of shaping the concept of corporeal literacy. Her lecture exemplified how the
“Things That Move Us”- Tamalone van Eijnden
During the last session of Transmission in Motion Emilia Barakova and Roos van Berkel gave a workshop on “Expressive Movement as a Universal Language between Humans and Social Robots.” But actually, it was more than the two of them, since they also brought Pleo with them, an animatronic pet dinosaur, which has been used in